TIL that during “the Emergency”, a political crisis in India which saw civil liberties being curtailed, the newspaper Indian Express protested against ongoing press censorship by publishing a fully blank front page editorial.

Read more: https://www.newindianexpress.com/galleries/nation/2018/jun/25/this-is-how-express-stood-up-to-the-emergency-declared-by-indira-gandhi-in-1975-101601.html

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